Osama Bin Laden is dead! Or is he?
By Michael Smith (Veshengro)
OK, so far so good!
As a conspiracy theorist at times I want to throw a little spanner into the works here and ask the question above: “Did we really get Osama Bin Laden?”
The reason I do ask is that there have always been the rumors that he has a number of doubles in the same way as was rumored about Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
There have been so many times when it has been claimed that Osama Bin Laden or this or that one of his deputies had been killed in this or that direct assault or drone attack only to find that this was not the case.
Are we, eventually, at the same stage again and is this a ruse to split the Taliban from al-Qaeda so that the Afghan government can engage in talk with them. Not that that would be a bad idea and we can all take serious bets that this is happening already and for some time already.
What proof, however, do we have of the death of Bin Laden? Has al-Qaeda admitted that their leader is dead? So far no word, it would seem. We shall to wait and see, I guess. I believe it when al-Qaeda decide to do something and claim that that is the revenge for kill Osama Bin Laden. Until such a time I will remain doubting.
In addition to that the news that has been coming out is that the Seal team that, supposedly, killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body, have buried him at sea so as to deny his followers a place, a shrine, where they can gather to pay homage to him as a martyr.
However, what has happened here too is that no one can now check on the truth as to whether this really was Osama Bin Laden. In addition to that it will be Bin Laden's deputy who will take over and this could be a case of “from the frying pan into the fire.” Anyone who thinks that al-Qaeda now will slink away into the the background better think again.
© 2011
